Pteridophyllum racemosum

[Rodger Whitlock]

At long last I have acquired a specimen of one of the more elusive plants on my want list, Pteridophyllum racemosum.

Now the question is, how to grow this successfully? Being Japanese in origin, I'm pretty sure it requires protection from our heavy winter rains, but does it need protection from hard freezes as well?

And (assuming it survives to spring), what kind of potting mix would be most appropriate for it?

Any comments about the cultivation of pteridophyllum are welcome, even if it's just to say "I did thus-and-so and killed mine instantly."

[mark smyth]

I grow mine in a trough that gets only early morning direct light/sun. The mix in the trough is top soil, grit and leaf mould. A friend grows hers in a trough also but it gets no direct light

[WimB]

Mine grows outside, under the shade of a cherry tree in a soil with a lot of leaf-mould. It survives our wet winters without protection, last year it froze to -12°C and it survived that also...